[PATCH] Return a different error if unavailable keytype is used

David Howells
2004-09-23T09:52:26Z

The attached patch causes the add_key() syscall to return a different error if
the key type is unavailable to distinguish between that and an error
indicating the keyring to add to is unavailable.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---

key.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -uNrp linux-2.6.9-rc2-mm1/security/keys/key.c linux-2.6.9-rc2-mm1-afskey/security/keys/key.c
--- linux-2.6.9-rc2-mm1/security/keys/key.c 2004-09-16 12:09:57.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.9-rc2-mm1-afskey/security/keys/key.c 2004-09-22 16:14:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -744,7 +744,7 @@ struct key *key_create_or_update(struct
* types */
ktype = key_type_lookup(type);
if (IS_ERR(ktype)) {
- key = ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(ktype));
+ key = ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
goto error;
}